Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-03
THE OLD DoNINION.

A correspondent over the signature ot "D. T." in the National Republican, wig orously ssssils the democracy of Vir- gipia, He says:
 "Whst is the cause of Virginis's con- stant and rapid decline? Is il for the want of 8 genial and healthy climate, 6 productive soil. obstruction to commerce. slsck of minerals and hmber2 Let Governor Henry A. Wise answer these questions. From his speech delivered at Liberty Hall, Alexandra, February, 1856. he thus described the slmOst un- limited resources of Virginia.
 Twas saying when interrupted that the state of Virginia has every element oi commerce. agriculture, mining and manufacturing. On Chesapeake bay, from the mouth of the Rsppshsnock to the cspes, we have rosdstesds and hsr- bcrs sufficient to float the nsvies of the world. You have the Potomsc. the Rspshsnnock, the James, and Elizabeth rivers. all meeting in the most beautiful sheet of water of sll the seas of the earth. You have the bowels of your western mountains rich in iron, ID cop per, in coal. in salt, in gypson, end the very earth IS rich in oil, which makes the very river flame. You have the Alleghany, the beautiful Blue Ridge that stands there-plsced there by the Al. mighty-not to oostruct the way of the people to the market. but plsced there ID the very bounty of Providence to milk the clouds and to make sweet springs which are the source of your rivers
 Great Applsusel At the head ot every -treAm IS the waterfall murmerlng the music of power. Applsuse. And yet your commerce has long since spread hei ssils and sailed away from you. fou have not ss yet dug more than coal enough to warm yourselves st your own hearth, You have set no tilt hammer oi Vulcan to strike blows worthy of gods ID the iron founderies; you have not ss pet spun more than cosree cotton enough in the way of manufacture, tC cloths yourselves; you have had no com meroe; no mining, no manufactures; you | have relied alone on the sIngle power oi | agriculture. and such agrIcultIre Great Laughter. Instead of having | 70 feed cattle on 8 thousand hills, you have had to chase the stump-tsiled steel through the hedge patches to procure 6 tough beefsiesk. Great Applause.
 With all this pleptititude of power | Virginis has dwarfed in the Union. But
 oy the gods I say, she has the power | nov, the energy, the resources (mRy ssy the men?) to be put upon the line | of progress to emInence of prosperity
 to pass New York yet faster in the Union than ever New York passed her (Cheers.) You have been called tho "0ld Dominion;" let us, ss- Virginisns, lmplore you, this night resolve that ( new era dawn, and that henceforth she hall be cslled ihe "New Dominion | (Cheers.) The present condition oi things has existed too long in Virginia
 The landlord has skinned the tenant and the tenant hss skinned the land until all have grown poor together.
 The famous speech of Gov. Wise e1- plains how Virginia under seventy years of Democratic Bourbon management has "been dwarfed in the Union" that instead of retaining her former honor able position as first in the ostalogue of states, has dropped down to the hum ble position of thirteenth. The speech of Gov. Wise, delivered in 1856, is just as applicable to the affairs of Virgini6 ,o-dsy ss il was the night it was de- liverei. The psrtJ that ruled in lSjt rules Virginia now; the same party have 'set DO tilt hammer of Vulcan to strike blows worthy of gods in the iIon foun- dries; are opposed to every develop ment except sgrisulture-snd such agri- culture"